Mardi 28 juin 2011

Jonathan Storm: Putting on her TV shoes


The baby, State of Georgia, arrives Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. on ABC Family. It's a broad sitcom with a modicum of fun, written by big-time chick-lit author, and Philadelphian, Jennifer Weiner. She has sold 11 million books in 36 countries, but she has never made a TV show.

State of Georgia stars been-on-TV-since-she-was-a-baby Raven-Symone as Georgia and the well-traveled but still somewhat obscure Majandra Delfino, whom TV heads may best remember as the snarky Maria DeLuca, human girlfriend of an alien, on Roswell more than 10 years ago.

Delfino has never done a traditional sitcom before, and she's surprisingly good. "Sometimes you just look at her, and it's like visiting a museum," says Weiner, providing a clue as to how she got so rich and famous as an author, after leaving The Inquirer in 2001, following a six-year stint as a feature writer.

Weiner, pronounced WI-ner ("Anthony Weiner has ruined a perfectly good name for a lot of people," she says), is much greener than Delfino. Yet here she is, executive producer of her own show, surrounded by scads of cast, crew, and cowriters, with a TV veteran partner, Kirk Rudell, co-executive producer on Will & Grace, to keep things running smoothly.

It's very different from sitting all alone in a garret in Queen Village, where she has lived for years, making a book, and she's glad.

"I love being around people, having other people to talk to," she said in a phone interview from her L.A. office. "It's very lonely writing novels."

Weiner is a gregarious scribe. Many authors dread book-tour publicity. She says she likes it, and a new tour is in the offing. Then Came You, about a wealthy woman, her stepdaughter, an egg donor, and a surrogate mother, is 70th on the Amazon fiction list, and it won't be published for three weeks. She'll talk about the book in an appearance at the Free Library of Philadelphia, 1901 Vine St., on July 13.


South Carolina was in Virginia's shoes last season


OMAHA, Neb. — Depending on your perspective, South Carolina’s baseball team is either sitting on a perch or standing on a ledge.

A win tonight over Virginia and the Gamecocks fly off into the championship series, which begins Monday.

But two slips and they hit the ground.

Think it can’t happen? Scan the memory banks for Carolina, South, vs. Clemson, 2010. Or Carolina, South vs. Clemson, 2002.

Both years, the Gamecocks were in the same spot the Cavaliers are in this year: Win two or go home. Both times they won two to reach the championship round, taking their first national title a year ago.

“We’ve been on the other side,” South Carolina coach Ray Tanner said after the team’s practice Thursday at Creighton University. “If you don’t win tomorrow, the momentum kind of shifts.”

South Carolina defeated Texas A&M, 5-4, in the opener on Sunday and battered Virginia, 7-1, on Tuesday night to take control of the bracket. The Gamecocks say they aren’t about to squander the position.

“We’ve just got to go out and play our game,” said junior outfielder Jackie Bradley Jr., who batted cleanup and had a double and single in the first meeting with Virginia. “We’ve put ourselves in a really good situation and we’ve got to try to take advantage of it. If we don’t finish it off Friday, fortunately we do have the fall-back game.”

First baseman Christian Walker, who had two hits and drove in two runs Tuesday, said the team knows firsthand how quickly thinks can change. The Gamecocks won’t be looking past the Cavaliers, he said.

“We’re 100 percent focused, our heads are where they need to be,” Walker said. “We’re not taking anything for granted.”

Jeudi 23 juin 2011

Four Writers Tell All About Titles



The title of a book, along with maybe the cover, is most often what’s going to lead a potential reader to pick up your baby book. Which isn’t to say coming up with a good one is easy. To the contrary, it’s the sort of thing, like naming a band, that can cause everyone involved a lot of agony, particularly when an author has settled on something very early in the process and someone else (usually involved in selling it) however many months or years later decides that the book might be better served with something different.

So, how do we know if we have a good title? According to author Bennett Madison, there’s only one way: “Before you decide on your title for real, practice telling it to people at parties. If you can do it without cringing/wincing it’s the perfect title!”

Okay, now that you have your title in place (at least in from your vantage point) and your book is in production, what happens next? With a thought to find out, we asked a few authors—including Laurie Frankel, Suzanne Morrison, Richard Rushfield and Urban Waite—the following set of questions:

    Did the title of your book(s) change between selling your manuscript, submission, and publication?

    If so, who instigated the title change? Did your agent get involved at any point? Did your contract have any title provisions that came into play?

    Did you create the new title of the book or select one that was offered to you? Can you share some of the suggestions that were proposed?

    Did you “push back” in any way w/r/t the new title, and did the process cause any emotional or other trauma? (If so, did you recover?)

Let's dive in!

Safilo shows support for Special Olympics athletes


Leading Italian eyewear specialist Safilo Group has announced its continued commitment to supporting the Special Olympics, the international sports competition for people with disabilities.

Safilo is sponsoring the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Athens from 25 June to 4 July, when 7,000 Special Olympics athletes from more than 170 countries will compete in 22 Olympic sports.

Safilo's involvement with the Special Olympics started in 2003 as a global supplier of the Special Olympics-Lions Clubs International Opening Eyes vision care programme. Opening Eyes, part of the Special Olympics' award-winning Healthy Athletes public health initiative, provides vision care for people with disabilities.

Many athletes benefit from vision screenings and receive prescription glasses to correct their vision impairments and sunglasses to protect their eyes. The Opening Eyes programme also provides sports protective eyewear for athletes who train and compete in contact sports.

Opening Eyes was founded by the American Optometric Association's Sports Vision Section and formally incorporated into the Special Olympics Healthy Athletes programme in 1997. A grant from the Lions Clubs International Foundation, the largest service club in the world, formalised a global partnership and enabled the Opening Eyes programme to expand internationally.

Safilo renewed its support for the Special Olympics by donating more than 80,000 spectacles and sunglasses between 2010 and 2011 for Special Olympics athletes. In addition, Safilo staff often take part in the events as volunteers, donating their time and expertise for the benefit of Special Olympics athletes and those with disabilities.
Lundi 20 juin 2011

In more ways than one, they walk a mile in her shoes Wiley Smith can now say he knows what it'

In more ways than one, they walk a mile in her shoes

Wiley Smith can now say he knows what it's like to walk in a woman's shoes.

The 38-year-old Reading man was among several men who donned high heels and marched with women and children down Penn Avenue in West Reading on Saturday to protest violence against women.

About 200 people, including Smith's wife, Milly, marched from Park Road to Fifth Avenue. Organized by Berks Women in Crisis, the march was part of a national initiative called Walk a Mile in Her Shoes.

The event coincided with West Reading's annual Art on the Avenue festival on Penn Avenue - a day filled with music, art and opportunities to showcase the businesses, artisans and residents of the borough.

During the march, men were encouraged to wear women's shoes and march side by side with women and children.

Wiley Smith said he felt it was important to take part because he was exposed to domestic violence as a child.

His wife said that it was impressive to see men wearing heels to show support for women on the issue.

"I was in an abusive relationship, so it means a lot for me," she said.

Crocs 20% off Men's & Unisex Styles (Code ends tonight)



Crocs released a 20% off code good on men's and unisex style Crocs this weekend.

You'll still have to pay for shipping ($4.99)

Note if you don't want that code but need a code, they'll email you a code if you register a new email account.

They do have other schools too. GO to the SALE tab. Hit low to high, view all and scroll through the shoes. Also -- The only size in the Auburn shoe was a men's size 8 which would be women's size 10. The code makes them $11.99.

After shipping it will be $16.98 not bad it was going to be $19.98.
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